Isley brothers

A wealth of lost nuggets selected from our own private collections…

Very sad news overnight about the passing of David Roback. By way of a tribute, here's my career-spanning Mazzy Star interview which originally appeared...

It’s quite hard to imagine that such a thing as a Great Lost Album could still exist, at a time when everything seems available....

The Kinks, David Crosby, Bruce Springsteen and Robert Plant all feature in the new issue of Uncut, dated February 2014 and out now.

In haste again this week, but various delays in posting this have at least meant that the playlist has kept growing: 32 entries, with seven interesting things to listen to, including Neil Young and a couple of strong new artists, the pretty psych Morgan Delt and Matt Kivel, whose album reminds me a bit of the first one by Bon Iver.

Playing spot-the-reference isn’t, I guess, the most elevated game for critics to indulge in. White Denim’s music, however, suggests that the Austin quartet are conceivably America’s most exciting record store nerds. Last time they put an album out (“D”, in 2011), I wrote a review in the mag that included this paragraph:

As yesterday, I’m pretty preoccupied with the new Animal Collective record that has turned up. It’s called “Merriweather Post Pavilion”, I think it might be my first favourite record of 2009, and if I can get my thoughts in some sort of order I’ll blog about it tomorrow.